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It speculates that the Palestinians would have empathized with the Iraqis and sought to retaliate for the strikes--the Hamas, for example, might have launched an American-flag-burning fest.
People might be killed, and Bin Ladin's supporters might retaliate, perhaps taking U.S. citizens in Kandahar hostage.
The treaty's proponents respond that the U.S. military would be unlikely to retaliate with chemical weapons in any case and is already moving to destroy its stockpiles.
A recent study of cooperative territorial defence in lions, Panthera leo , described the correct ranking structure for a Prisoner's Dilemma [ 34 35 ] . However, cooperators did not retaliate against defectors.
After US missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Ladin told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a [-] service.